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Forum Post How To Prevent String Breakage
Particularly with bottom loading strings (Telecaster) Often strings will eventually break between the string ferrule and the bridge..( B & E) Here is a tip that will help: Take some thi...
Forum Post 5 String Bass info
Here is the 5 string info as the 4 string the info is the same format. This book contains a complete reference to playing a standard-tuned 5 string bass. INTRO It contains detailed key-by-key in...
Forum Post Hard time with my G string
I have just bought a secondhand Tokai TS-60 Strat (`62 replica), and have a hard time getting the G-string to sound right. I have intonated the guitar, and when I play with a clean sound it sound...
Forum Post A couple of charts for 4 and 5 string bass.
...seful to some and of course not others so will post and let the individuals choose. The first is for 4 string bass: Thre second for 5 string bass: Fenderphil _FB_FILEATTACH _FB_FILENAME ...
Forum Post String rattle/buzz/vibrat ion/thing?
...the time. And I seem to hear it on any guitar with any distortion. It mainly happens on my 6th and 3rd strings, the E and G strings. You can play them on clean really loud, and things appear just f...
Forum Post Tip for all you string benders.
...no doubt will go on doing so. Here is a tip I would like to share with you. If you do any amount of string bending you will know that it is good for the bent string to return to pitch without de...
Forum Post Tele string through or top load
Are there actually differences in the tone and sustainability in Teles that have string through bodies? for personal replies, remove PESTSTRIP.
Forum Post Getting a little string buzz - fret rub
...tunnel in my left wrist and have problems with a thick neck and/or high action). I'm getting some string buzz on a few of the stings when played open. I do not hear if I just give the string ...
Forum Post String Gauges?
How do you read string gauges? When someone says, "I use 10s on my guitar" are they referring the gauge of the E string (low)? Alright first off: Have a Squier Strat that I'm re-st...
Forum Post Download site for 4 & 5 string bass guide.
I downloaded these two e books in pdf format they both only total 1.6mb 4 String & 5 String Bass Guide PDF 1.64MB. These books contain a complete reference to playing a standard-tuned 4 &am...
Forum Post String Height @ First Fret
Everybody has their own way of doing this. In theory, the string height at the nut should be just a tad higher than the first fret. Therefore, if you fret a string at the second fret the string shou...
Forum Post 5-string flat/taperwound strings???
Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes a 5 string set of flatwounds that are tapered at the bridge? (and maybe something other than nickel, or is that asking too much?)
Forum Post Carlo Robelli 6-string bass
... good reviews about the bass before I decided to try one. As I have posted in another thread, that six string is so bad looking (good) that it would pay for itself as being just an interesting wal...
Forum Post Mexican Fender String Saddles - What are they made of?
...to upgrade to a steel block and perhaps the saddles as well, so I wanted to know - Are the Mexican Fender string saddles made of steel, or are they die cast?...
Forum Post How to measure the correct placement for individual String Bridge Units?
Hi all Maybe someone here knows _ I am trying to figure out how to mesure the correct placement of 6 string Bridge unites for a 35".... I am stumped. If anyone could give me an Idea of how to go...
Forum Post Strat string height
I played some a few months back at a store that was having a sale on them. I played four or five of them. None of them had the issues that you describe, but it is entirely possible that those ones h...
Forum Post Emg Active Pickup String height
Does anyone know what the best clearance is with these pups?
Forum Post 5 String Bass (New Compressed)
I am not sure of the parameters of the forum but this file was too large to upload so I have compressed it to try, if nothing becomes available then it didn't work. It certainly contains a lot...
Forum Post 5 String Bass
My final effort I have tried renaming file extension. Fenderphil
Forum Post Bass guitar frequencies
B0 (B string on 5 string bass) is 30.87Hz E1 (E string on 4-string bass) is 41.2Hz. Found these on http://www.contrabass.com/pages/frequency.html 12th fret is an octave above the o...
Forum Post What's a B7sus chord?
I saw in a chord chart that Esus is an E chord with an A on the 3rd string. A is from EFGA. In the same way is B7sus a B7 chord with an E? E as from BCDE. To play it then would be a B7 chord wit...
Forum Post Power Chords on Acoustic Guitar
...r. Should I bother learning "power chords" with it? They sound is crapy on it, though the fifth string ones below the fifth fret sound better then ones played towards the neck on the sixth s...
Forum Post Make Sure You stretch New Strings.
A job often overlooked is stretching new strings when you put them on, or old ones that have been removed and put back for some reason. Tune to concert pitch and starting with the bass "E&qu...
Forum Post How to tune half-step down
...hought to myself. And Self replied, "It tunes you to a flat, you idiot!" great. With open strings, no....but it's easy enough to do. Fret your low E string at the sixth fret and ...
Forum Post Woo Hoo! New Sadowsky! (Porn Shots Included)
I know the 4 string Vintage was around $1800...so I imagine the 5 string is around $2,000.
Forum Post Power Chord Tip.
A good tip with reference to Power chords is as follows: They are normally 2 string chords, the key and the 5th on a standard tuning EADGBE The 5th is always on the next string down 2 frets down s...
Forum Post Easiest way to tune your guitar down one step ?
Hi Angharad A tip for string length is as follows....Take each string two tuning pegs above where its going and snip off. There are lots of theories as to whats right, I like the method state...
Forum Post Keeping a Non-Locking Floating Tremolo In Tune (Paul Reed Smith)
...laced the tuners with locking ones, use `Big Bends Nut Sauce` as lube on the nut and have even filed the string slots on the nut a little wider and curved so the strings feed at a better angle to th...
Forum Post Tele Neck on Strat?
There's a mutt. Completely agree on the string lengths. For the first year or so after my first Strat, I went insanely nuts with crazy low string bends BWaaaaaoooooooo. And keeper of a very ...
Forum Post Saddle effect on Strat tone
I've only heard of graphite saddles being used for string breakage problems.. That said, the big thing on any saddle is the spot on which the string contacts it. Much like a nut, a saddle that...
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